/2 day I work like a man. I am making good. I never liked a
place like I do here except home. Their is no place like home How
is the church getting along. You cant hardly get a house to live
in I am wide awake on my financial plans. I have rent me a place
for boarders I have 15 sleprs I began one week ago and be shure
to send me my letter of dismission By Return mail. I am going
into some kind of business here by the first of Sept. Are you
farming. Rasion is mighty high up here. the people are coming
from the south every week the colored people are making good they
are the best workers. I have made a great many white friends. The
Baptist Church is over crowded with Baptist from Ala & Ga. 10 and
12 join every Sunday. He is planning to build a fine brick
church. He takes up 50 and 60 dollars each Sunday he is a wel to
do preacher. I am going to send you a check for my salary in a
few weeks. It cose me $100 to buy furniture. Write me.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] These letters were collected under the direction of Mr. Emmett J.
Scott.

BOOK REVIEWS

_The American Negro in the World War._ By EMMETT J. SCOTT, Special
Assistant to the Secretary of War. The Negro Historical Publishing
Company, Washington, D.C., 1919.

Mr. Scott's account of the _Negro in the World War_ is one of a number
of works presenting the achievements of the Negroes during the great
upheaval. Kelly Miller, W. Allison Sweeney and others have preceded
him in publishing volumes in this same field. The account written by
Kelly Miller is apparently of dubious authorship. It is but a
common-place popular sketch of the war supplemented by one or two
essays bearing the stamp of controversial writing peculiar to Kelly
Miller. W. Allison Sweeney's work undertakes to make a more continuous
historical sketch of the achievements from year to year while at the
same time guided by the topical plan. At times the author is lofty in
his treatment and equally as often trivial. To say that Miller's and
Sweeney's works are not scientific does not exactly cover the ground.
They do not well measure up to the standard of the average popular
history.

Mr. Scott's history is far from being a definitive one, as the purpose
of the author was rather to popularize the achievements of the Negro
soldiers. In addition to giving the current historical comment
accessible in newspapers and magazines, Mr. Scott has